The Maddening of America

India s democracy can be maddening in its resistance to economic change.

SANTIAGO Take a taxi in São Paulo nowadays and you will experience the maddening traffic and untidy streets of an emerging country metropolis.

By contrast, India strikes many as maddening, chaotic, divided, and seemingly directionless as it muddles its way through the second decade of the twenty first century.

Yet, the act of fleeing some of the most dangerous places in the world is currently being punished with substandard living conditions and a maddening, perpetual state of limbo and uncertainty the same principle of deterrence is in effect.